Books published by SAGE Publications Ltd

This popular text explores all the major themes in early years education and care, providing a real insight into the changing world of Early Childhood.

This popular text explores all the major themes in early years education and care, providing a real insight into the changing world of Early Childhood.

Offering an in-depth study of validity, which forms an important part of education assessment, this book addresses complex concepts in a straightforward manner, while guiding the reader through the evolution of validity from the 19th century to the present day.

A state of the art guide to the issues and debates surrounding feminist theory, mapping both the present and the future of this broad, interdisciplinary field.

Providing a clear overview of the therapy profession for those embarking on professional training this book takes the reader step-by-step through what 'counselling' actually is; introducing and exploring the basic concepts, historical development, research base and structure of the profession.

This unique, self-contained and accessible textbook provides an introduction to computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience accessible to students with little or no background in computing or mathematics.

Helping students to easily compare and select qualitative methods, this new introduction from expert authors is a practical guide to the research process

Helping to equip student nurses and midwives with the confidence, knowledge and skills needed for working with families to support and protect children, the book covers the full spectrum of safeguarding work, from professional issues such as boundaries, confidentiality, referral and accountability through to multi-agency working.

Helping to equip student nurses and midwives with the confidence, knowledge and skills needed for working with families to support and protect children, the book covers the full spectrum of safeguarding work, from professional issues such as boundaries, confidentiality, referral and accountability through to multi-agency working.

"This is an excellent and informative text for Child Health Nursing students. It has interesting case studies that cover care issues as well as considering the use of audit. The book looks at children's nursing worldwide and is not just UK based." - Mel Webb, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bedfordshire University

This collection successfully discusses the different ways documentation comes into being and how and why they become objects of social research. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary scale of the field as well as both its qualitative and its quantitative scope.

The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology.

Suitable for second year undergraduate students. In this book, the author manages to synthsise important 'theoretical' concerns with the practicalities of youth work through effective use of activities and case studies.

Unlike other books about coaching, Making Sense of Coaching examines the process of coaching rather than its techniques and goals and addresses issues such as the problematic relationship between coach and coachee in business coaching when the explicit goal is to improve individual performance within an organisation.

This affordable and accessible introduction to knowledge management offers a critical look at the history, nature and future of the field, providing essential reading for those questioning contemporary management practices.

Epidemiological studies of the association between lung cancer and exposure to radon and its decay products are reviewed. Particular emphasis is given to pooled case-control studies of residential exposures and to cohorts of underground miners exposed to relatively low levels of radon.

A practical toolkit and essential guide to teaching and training vocational learners across all settings.

A practical guide to managing behaviour and motivating students in Further and Adult Education, fully revised and updated for this third edition.

A self audit and application text for trainee teachers to support them in the acquisition of subject knowledge for arithmetic.

Robin Wensley explores all the basic analytical approaches required to inform a sound analytical approach to practical issues in the management of human organisations. Readers will gain crucial insight into the link between managerial theory and the key practical features of managerial experience in action.

A self audit and application text for trainee teachers to support them in the acquisition of subject knowledge for systematic synthetic phonics.

This timely and fully revised second edition provides an overview of the personalisation agenda and looks at the recent legislation in a broad historical and theoretical perspective. This approach will provide opportunities for students to consider the changes to the social work role and to evaluate the impact of this for service users and as practitioners.

Taking a recovery-approach perspective, this book helps mental health nurses and students understand the importance of physical health care and promotion for people with mental health disorders.

This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research, and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF

This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research, and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF

This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.

Theories for Mental Health Nursing is the first textbook to directly address the key theories that inform the study and practice of mental health nursing and health care in the 21st century. Taking a broad approach to mental health, the authors explain why different approaches might be adopted at different times, before going on to show how they should be applied in practice.

An ideal study companion throughout a business and management degree, this text provides up-to-date coverage of hot topics such as effective reading, essay skills, how to use social media and how to secure employment after university.

Theories for Mental Health Nursing is the first textbook to directly address the key theories that inform the study and practice of mental health nursing and health care in the 21st century. Taking a broad approach to mental health, the authors explain why different approaches might be adopted at different times, before going on to show how they should be applied in practice.